Building a VCAP live exam lab environment (pt3) :: DCA550 environment

This post is intended to help those building labs to study for the DCA550 exam. Note that each question lists the components required to complete that item.

The DCA550 exam is based on a vApp hosted by vCloud Director. While the vApp’s primary desktop is a Win2k8 R2 server named “ControlCenter” I would not recommend replicating that, rather use either your hosting machine’s desktop or the domain controler (pdc-sql) and just make sure Firefox, PowerCLI, Putty and WinSCP are on it.